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Henry Adams

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born

February 16, 1838 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

died

March 27, 1918

gender

male

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics

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Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and a professor of medieval, European, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of...more

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Books by Henry Adams

Average rating: 3.70 · 1,221 ratings · 208 reviews · 91 distinct works

	The Education of Henry Adams 3.62 avg rating — 798 ratings — published 1918 — 88 editions	My rating:
	Democracy: An American Novel 3.42 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1880 — 63 editions	My rating:
	Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams, Raymond Carney (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1905 — 51 editions	My rating:
	History of the United States: Jefferson Administrations 4.50 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Democracy / Esther / Mont Saint Michel and Chartres / The Education of Henry Adams 4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	History of the United States: Madison Administrations 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Esther 3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1976 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The War of 1812 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Jeffersonian Transformation 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Henry Adam's the Education of Henry Adams 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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Quotes by Henry Adams

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

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“What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying.”
― Henry Adams

tags: action , character , decency , honesty , hypocrisy , lies , politics , truth

137 people liked it

“Friends are born, not made.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

tags: friend , friendship

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